Latest hardware patents, Page 184
Chips, displays, cameras, phones, batteries and robots. These filings show what devices Big Tech is building, often long before they ship. The hardware patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, from semiconductors to foldable screens, newest first.
- in the Nov 12 release
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- in November so far
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- filings tracked
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Recent filings
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Qualcomm · Published May 28
Qualcomm Patents Zoom-Aware Rectification for Stereo Camera Pairs
When you zoom in on a dual-camera phone, the stereo math that powers depth sensing quietly breaks — Qualcomm's new patent is a fix for exactly that problem.
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Qualcomm · Published May 28
Qualcomm Patents GPS-Assisted Motion Estimation for 3D Point Cloud Compression
Compressing 3D LiDAR data is brutally hard — the scene changes every millisecond and every point in space needs to move with it. Qualcomm's new patent shortcuts that problem by leaning on GPS to figure out how the world shifted between frames before even looking at the point cloud itself.
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Sony · Published May 28
Sony Patents a Thermal Throttle for In-Car Cabin Monitoring Cameras
A car parked in the summer sun can turn into an oven — and that's a real problem for the cameras and infrared lights increasingly watching you inside the cabin. Sony's new patent tackles what happens when those systems get too hot to safely keep running.
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Sony · Published May 28
Sony Patents a Cost-Volume System for High-Accuracy ToF Depth Estimation
Time-of-Flight sensors are fast but fuzzy — they trade spatial resolution for speed. Sony's new patent describes a way to squeeze much more depth accuracy out of that sparse data by treating each pixel's distance as a probability problem, not a single hard number.
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Sony · Published May 28
Sony Patents a Multi-Camera System That Shows Every Camera's Shooting Range at Once
Managing a dozen cameras at a live event means constantly guessing what each one is covering. Sony's new patent describes a system that makes those coverage zones visible — and tailors what you see based on who you are.
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Sony · Published May 28
Sony Patents a System for Adding Realistic Rolling Shutter Distortion to CG Images
When a camera sensor reads out pixels line by line instead of all at once, fast-moving objects appear skewed or wobbly — a well-known artifact called rolling shutter distortion. Sony's new patent describes a way to add that distortion to individual computer-generated objects before blending them into a final frame, making synthetic images look more like what a real camera would capture.
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Intel · Published May 28
Intel Patents Parallel Huffman Decoding to Compress LLM Weights on GPU
Running a large language model on a GPU requires moving enormous amounts of weight data around — and that bandwidth cost is a real bottleneck. Intel's new patent proposes packing those weights tighter using a classical compression trick, then unpacking them in parallel at inference time.
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Intel · Published May 28
Intel Patents a Way to Send Pre-Compiled Commands Directly to GPU Hardware
Every time your GPU runs a task, the graphics driver spends time translating instructions into hardware commands. Intel's patent describes a way to skip that translation step entirely by pre-compiling those commands once and dispatching them directly.
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AMD · Published May 28
AMD Patents a Runtime GPU Shader Scheduler That Learns From Past Frames
AMD is filing a patent for a GPU scheduling system that watches how your games actually run — across multiple frames — and quietly rewrites its own task-distribution policy on the fly, no driver update needed.
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Apple · Published May 21
Apple Patents an Optical Sensing System That Tracks Stylus Tilt, Hover, and Rotation via Light
Apple is exploring a way to track a stylus using light rather than traditional capacitive touch — and the system can detect not just where the pen is, but how it's tilted, how far it's hovering, and even how it's rotated.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a GPU Method for Splitting Tensor Operations into Parallel Paths
Tensor operations are the heartbeat of modern AI — but certain flavors, like the ones used in physics-aware neural networks, are notoriously hard to parallelize efficiently. Nvidia's new patent describes a structured way to slice those operations into smaller, GPU-friendly chunks and compute them all at once.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents an Adaptive Rectifier Circuit for More Efficient Wireless Charging
Wireless charging loses a surprising amount of energy as heat during the AC-to-DC conversion step. Samsung's latest patent targets that exact inefficiency with a comparator-driven switch circuit that adapts in real time to the coil's voltage.
